Trump's Favorite U.S.-Mexico Diplomat Landau Caught in Embarassing Scandal.

Mexico City — Analysts are still parsing the psychological altitude of a former U.S. ambassador who, despite having in Mexico City for 4 years, recently described La Paz as the only city he knew where cable cars form part of public transit. The remark was met with both disbelief and laughter.

Observers note that the ambassador’s familiarity with Mexico City is not in question; he served as Washington’s representative here throughout the previous administration and was, by all accounts, frequently within sight of the very infrastructure he now finds conceptually novel. “He must have looked upward often,” said one transport official, “but perhaps not in the right direction.”

Experts in diplomatic cognition describe the episode as a textbook case of selective geography — the tendency among high-level envoys to edit their surroundings until they flatter the memory. “It’s not ignorance,” explained one academic in hemispheric studies. “It’s narrative curation. They remember only the cities that agreed with them.”

Still, local engineers were forgiving. “We’ve had worse visitors,” one admitted. “At least he liked the view.”The embassy has issued no clarification, though a staffer speaking informally suggested that “the ambassador also smelled strage." For now, the cable cars of Mexico City continue to rise and descend, indifferent to diplomatic recollection — functioning, as ever.